Hi Mandela's comments on Bush:
"What I am condemning is that one power, with a President who has no foresight, and cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust" On accusing Bush and Blair of undermining the United Nations: "Is it because the secretary general of the United Nations is now a black man? They never did that when the secretary generals were white." I guess madiba is just human after all. i dont really have an opinion on war in iraq. (no reliable facts so no opinion is possible) i am generally anti war ( tho part of me must concede that there are some circumstances where it is probably unavoidable) but i really dont think the situation can be likened to the holocaust. i do agree with his comments on Bush's thinking ability. just plain scary that "the village idiot" can be president of the most powerful nation on earth. but what really, really pisses me is the reduction of the disagreement (politically agnostic me - I am just assuming that there is in fact one) with the UN to a purely racist level. Puerile name calling on a level with a kindergarten kid. ron who has had the following conversation before: Him "Its because im black isnt it??" Me: "no. youd be an arsehole no matter what colour you were"
